One With No Name

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=265 BGCOLOR="#990000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="01e09c00dvldzz.png"> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="95" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 46 WIDTH="91"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="46" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="91" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>The Fierce Embrace</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>An anonymous leper, one with no name, opened his arms to Francis and invited him into a fierce embrace. From that moment Francis states he was filled with the love of God. His whole life reflected that passionate love.</B></div> <div> <B>The anonymous one is always with us in the secret spaces of our hearts lurking behind rocks and in the crevasses of the world we inhabit.</B></div> <div> <B>We often find difficulty in  acknowledging his presence,  cringing to avoid him even in our dreams. And yet he reaches out to us in compassion and bestows the gift of transformation. </B></div> <div> <B>In that fierce embrace something utterly new and unheard of is created, a mysterious third. </B></div> <div> <B>He called to Jesus from the side of the road. He walked before Buddha in a Brahmin field. </B><B>Heyoka</B><B>, backwards clown of the universe, bodhisatva of compassion, moneychanger of the world, dancing among the bones of the dead, he separates illusion and delusion from ultimate reality.</B></div> <div> <B>Call him leper, outcast, enemy, madman, hidden self.</B></div> <div> <B> The initiator, the quickener,  everywhere hidden and right before our eyes. </B></div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#003300" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="3" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="560" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#000000" BORDERCOLORDARK="#000000" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" BGCOLOR=#000000 > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 14 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="home"><U>home</U></A><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#990000" FACE="Symbol" >   ·   </FONT><A HREF="id3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Us"><U>About Us</U></A><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#990000" FACE="Symbol" >   ·   </FONT><A HREF="id14.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Francis"><U>Francis</U></A><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#990000" FACE="Symbol" >   ·   </FONT><A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Clare"><U>Clare</U></A><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#990000" FACE="Symbol" >   ·   </FONT><B>One With No Name</B><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#990000" FACE="Symbol" >   ·   </FONT><A HREF="id49.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="benefactors and donations"><U>benefactors and donations</U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 73 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="0d14e490.png" border=0 width="78" height="73" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#339999" FACE="Tempus Sans ITC" ><B>The Fourth Order of Francis and Clare </B></FONT></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B> </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="home"><U><B>home</B></U></A><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#339999" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B><B> </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#339999" FACE="Tempus Sans ITC" ><B> </B></FONT><A HREF="id63.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Dec 04"><U><B>site guide</B></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> One With No Name</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="097135e0.png" border=0 width="275" height="350" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CCCC66" FACE="Tempus Sans ITC" ><B> </B></FONT><B>Wh</B><B>e</B><B>n you looked at me</B></div> <div> <B> your eyes imprinted your grace in me;</B></div> <div> <B> for this you loved me ardently;</B></div> <div> <B> and thus my eyes deserved</B></div> <div> <B> to adore what they beheld in you. </B></div> <div> <B> </B></div> <div> <B> Do not despise me;</B></div> <div> <B> for if, before, you found me dark,</B></div> <div> <B> now truly you can look at me</B></div> <div> <B> since you have looked</B></div> <div> <B> and left in me grace and beauty.</B></div> <div> Juan de la Cruz</div> <bR> <div> designed by Lorenz Gude</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="annoymous_one_m.htm" TITLE="One With No Name"><U>Back to Top</U></A>      <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="home"><U>Home Page</U></A></div> </td> </tr></table></body>